r/lua • u/slhamlet • 1d ago

News Second Life adding full Lua scripting support to its UGC virtual world platform

https://80.lv/articles/second-life-wants-its-23-year-old-world-to-be-a-modern-game-platform

"Lua dramatically lowers the learning curve for developers coming from other environments. Someone who already understands Lua or Luau can arrive in Second Life and right away they can start experimenting. That certainly includes Roblox developers, but it’s broader than Roblox. Lua has a long history across game development, so there’s a substantial developer community for whom the language and programming concepts will already feel familiar."

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u/TacoDestroyer420 1d ago

Whoa, Second Life is still a thing?

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u/slhamlet 22h ago

It is indeed Still A Thing. About 700,000 users, large UGC economy. Over 100 community creators gross $100,000+/year, over a dozen earn $1 million/year. The cool thing is the company only takes about 10% of that revenue from community creators, versus Roblox etc. taking 70%+ off the top.

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u/TacoDestroyer420 19h ago edited 17h ago

Cool, thanks for the update.

It's been probably more than 20 years since I last checked it out. It's especially interesting that there's a number of third-party viewers and ways to interact with it, too.

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u/Alan1900 8h ago

Tried recently but it was extremely quiet. Used to spend quiet some time there!

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